Code for Kids

"Everybody should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think - Steve Jobs”

So there are many resources to help kids to code. Most of them are easy and fun introductions to coding. They will teach you programming concepts but it won’t teach you real programming. There’s no bridge to real programming. They’re more like educational games that give you joy of solving puzzles.

Educational games can give you useful informations and fun at the same time. But kids have to spend much of their time to play it. Instead of spending hours and hours doing repetitive tasks, they have to think creatively and get sunshine outside.

The way of teaching a child to cycle is to allow the child to lean and steer (and crash safely). Training wheels won’t help them learn to balance. Likewise, you only need to code as much and as quickly as possible, without being worried about syntax overhead.

Code for Kids doesn’t teach kids to move something to a somewhere. But help them to think. To code to solve their own problems. All life is problem solving!

Use the "print" command to print the line "Hello, World!". Run a command several times using a for loop. Use conditional statements to perform different actions for different decisions. Then chain them to do more complicated operations.

You're human and humans can make mistakes. Mistakes in your code are known as errors. Don’t fret. Any error you make will be highlighted with messages so you can easily fix it. Troubleshooting is the most important coding skill after all.

Code for Kids is a subset of Swift programming language and uses the same syntax. Swift has little syntax overhead and is good to start with for beginners. Learning Swift has also a greater future potential since you can directly code the same way iPhone, iPad, desktop, laptop, watch, TV, etc.


Enough talk, let's code!